If you need to convert the dictionary to binary, you need to convert it to a string (JSON) as described in the previous answer, then you can convert it to binary.
For example:
my_dict = {'key' : [1,2,3]}
import json
def dict_to_binary(the_dict):
str = json.dumps(the_dict)
binary = ' '.join(format(ord(letter), 'b') for letter in str)
return binary
def binary_to_dict(the_binary):
jsn = ''.join(chr(int(x, 2)) for x in the_binary.split())
d = json.loads(jsn)
return d
bin = dict_to_binary(my_dict)
print bin
dct = binary_to_dict(bin)
print dct
will give the output
1111011 100010 1101011 100010 111010 100000 1011011 110001 101100 100000 110010 101100 100000 110011 1011101 1111101
{u'key': [1, 2, 3]}